The Nature of historical Research: Debate between modernist and Postmodernist Past events Historical evidences Role of researchers Outputs of historical research Reconstructionist Fully Retrievable Objective facts Objective and impartial History as authentic Reconstructionists correspondence of the Constructionist Partly Structurally and Theoretically and History as retrievable theoretically mediated structurally guided representations of the Interpretations constructionist past from selective perspec Deconstructionist Irretrievable Socially constructed Interpreters of text History as retrieval of andor systemic within text within suppressed distorted context representations of the representations14 Past events Historical evidences Role of researchers Outputs of historical research Reconstructionist Fully Retrievable Objective facts Objective and impartial Reconstructionists History as authentic correspondence of the past Constructionist Partly retrievable Structurally and theoretically mediated interpretations Theoretically and structurally guided constructionist History as representations of the past from selective perspectives Deconstructionist Irretrievable Socially constructed and/or systemic distorted representations Interpreters of text within text within context History as retrieval of suppressed representations of the past The Nature of Historical Research: Debate between Modernist and Postmodernist